i am interested in keeping a breeding colony to feed my rough neck monitor (it seems to prefer lizards over anything). have any of you tried this? how long does it take for the anole to hatch mature? how many animals do you suppose i start with? is it difficult? worthwhile?
thanks
-jake
p.s. sorry if the post offends anyone... but hey, its the food chain
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how dificult is it to breed anoles?
TBH
Sep 07, 2005 01:21 AM
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HerpGirl
Sep 16, 2005 08:03 AM
its not very hard but the time you will put in maintaining them, not to mention the money, these little lizards have high metabolisms and require large amounts of crickets. not to mention they only lay one to two eggs every two weeks. your best bet would prolly be to go on the internet and buy bulk of feeder anoles or if you go to shows you can usually find frozen ones.
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janome
Oct 14, 2005 05:40 AM
well, its really not worth the hastle. buy the time you house them.....properly...feed them, care for them. it can get very expensive. your better off finding a different food sorce.
my friend bought a pair of bahama anoles a year or so ago and they are breeding like crazy. she houses them in a HUGH enclosure her and her husband built. she just has them for pets. she had no intentions on breeding anoles but this pair have been breeding ever since she brought them home. i took 2 of the babies but after a year mine started to lay egg after egg so i let them go (i know...a big NO NO)but i didn't want dozens of baby anoles.
they are very time consuming.....esp the babies. by the time the babies are big enough to make a meal for a monetor, provided the monetor is a small one, they are like a year old. the babies are very small and eat fruit flies at first.
now they have so many babies they don't know what to do with them. i suppose if your up to the challenge....go for it.
